Commonwealth v. Orie

OPINION

Petitioner, Jane C. Orie, filed a petition for pre-trial review of the order entered in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, which denied as frivolous her motion to bar any retrial and dismiss the charges against her with prejudice, on double jeopardy grounds. The Supreme Court remanded the matter to this Court with the directive to examine the very limited issue of whether the trial court erred in finding *19Appellant’s motion was frivolous. Upon review of the record, we affirm the court’s finding of frivolousness.

The Supreme Court summarized the facts and procedural history of…